Dear all,

 

For the IWGP meeting in 2007 in Girona, I made a poster with remarkable medieval archaeobotanical finds in the Netherlands. Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) was included because of the find in one ship wreck (Burgzand, but another wreck than the published coffee ship BZN-4). It concerns the nutmeg, not the aril/mace. At that time, the parallel finds I could trace in the overviews of archaeobotanical literature published by Kroll and Schultze-Motel were:

None in the Netherlands, Dickson identified mace, the fleshy pericarp of Myristica from Scotland (Paisley Abbey, 15th century AD). Nutmeg is known from medieval Soutra (Scotland, Moffett 1992). Bratislava (Slovakia), 15^th  – early 16^th century AD (Hajnalova 1985). Beroun (Czech republic), early 14^th century AD (Čuliková 1994). Further finds of Myristica from Elblag (Poland), 13th century AD (Latalowa et al. 1998)

 

Since then, I am not aware of any new Dutch finds, I hope this helps a bit…

 

oTTo

 

Van: The archaeobotany mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Karen Stewart
Verzonden: dinsdag 15 april 2014 16:23
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